At $28,746 per pupil, Sweetwater ranks #6 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending (Oklahoma districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
122
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$28,746
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sweetwater operates 2 public schools serving 122 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Oklahoma. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined, 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Beckham County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $28,746 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 54 of 540 Oklahoma districts by per-pupil spending. See how Oklahoma compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 63.9% local, 25.9% state, and 10.2% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 2 schools offering Advanced Placement (1 AP courses district-wide), a 383.4:1 student-counselor ratio, well above the ASCA benchmark though still under the roughly 408:1 national average, and 14.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 66.3% White, 6.9% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Sweetwater Es, enrolling 85 students (74% of the district's total enrollment).
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 11.5% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (122 to 108 students), and the student-teacher ratio tightened by 1.0 students per teacher as staffing held steadier than enrollment, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,678,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 48.2% went to instruction, 39.9% to support services, and 4.5% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Sweetwater Es accounts for 69.7% of all Sweetwater student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sweetwater a distant remainder — means Sweetwater-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Sweetwater student-counselor ratio is 383:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Sweetwater chronic absenteeism rate is 14.4% — low (typically associated with lower-than-average attendance disruption; districts in this range often have attendance interventions, robust transportation, or smaller catchments that reduce barriers)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.